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Show . j Dorothy Dix Talks I THE PRICE OF WEDDING BELLS I Hy DOROTili the V.'..rlil's Iiighat Paid Wojnan Writer J V younc girl of r 1 1 ai i i i il im 1J me th" other d3 , "i told Jim that i would marry him whenever he had wived up enough mane) to furnish a' Ituu- liomc foi u. I 'ton ; aak loi iinMhing fin- ' ' ' M"" ' '" .tart where my pn rents are leavhig oil. for it has taken father that) rears hard work to RCl where he etui afford to jrlv.-mother jrlv.-mother Oriental rugs, and cafved mahog-;io. mahog-;io. and aluminum pott ind pana AdA. I "I love Jim. and I'd be satisfied with f, might! little, bul thai llttli l ' gol to I.. p.,,.j foi i wi i going Lb one BBBu of these installment house bridi i whose BBbBV bono moon Is knocked mio flinders by the MBBhm oil ee tor hammering on the door BVBpl "I've seen debl kill love too, often to BBBU want to take nnv chances on It. 1 do:)'. I want mi busbanil to have to ihtnk how niiirh 1 nm cojtlnf; him, ii"rl wonder ho n earth he's frohiK to get the money for my upkeep, every time li t'u:ik. of me 1 want to le the nlci . bwi e meringue on his life not the lemon pie beneath "If a young couple start out In life loaded down with debt, they haven't got one chance in fifty to get out of it. and Ihey haven't one chance I" B bundled of not coming to hate each oliier They are Simply foredoomed to make a failure of both life und matrimony. "The man seldom cots any higher than he Is. because there Is nothing that holds one down like a pile of bHlS bi" back. Me can't climb with that io.ni to Carry, and it gels bigger and bigger, be . auas there Is sure to come sickness. ;ind ramv days, thni -iii eosl more money. "To succeed, a man must Iim o little moncv laid by. so that he can take advantage ad-vantage of whatever luck liirown in his wnv for the onlj kej thai ever unlocks the door or OPPOrtunlt Is B golden one L II,. jnust be oblo to take a few risks, f- Above all. If he Is to accomplish any I thing wotth while, he must have it ralm. cleat mind and be able to give the best of his abilities to his work, instead of having half of his brain cells employed in trrtng to figurt. out some way to stave off the Installment man. : The man who starts out In married1 life In debt, is beaten at the very outset. He can't embrace the opportunity thAt comes his way, because nil of his mono li, going to pay on the lOarls Jrand ,Knp ids dining iooni suite lies bound to .nick to his clerkship, no matter whethei b-iuls anvwhe're or not because be Is U-hlnd with the butcher and baker, and h' can't risk being ut of work a week nd he can t develop the kind of er sonalltv that employers pa for. because debt takes the heart out of a man. and kills ambition quicker than anything COM in the world, and tuin.i the unniil ria ture into a gTOUCh. I want my husband lo be sensible man, and so I'm not going to be the one lo handicap him In tin iac... I want niv marriag. lo bt 0 BUCCCaa and that's wh I insist that it should hnve a good atrOng flnanCiil plant under iii. ii woiiHi in- ..ii ngnt ioi ie,ii ...... are in love to gel married, if the could exist In teal Im- as (hey do In novels, on romanen .umI kisses. "Hut ihev can't. We've all got more stomach than we have heart, and aftei WC get mauled we :,re Just BJ UUngTl S8 we were before, and take Just as keen an. Intercsl in beefsteak and onions lso We'VO got 10 be Clothed and hOUSCd and we find that sentiment plays a pretty Jloor second flddh lo oui physical com fort. ' . , Nor does just getting married. ern lo 'tin persons vou lnw. make up to 'OM entirely for 'doint. wlthOc u Kind of thing' ou hove be, u arx-UStonK.d to all rour life, and win n a mm ail I woman ll'f Ion d to m:.k.- .. pi fpi CUal - if , v ry taste and habit for ouch ' Lher, thi I aoon brgip io .oiuli i ii Uic g?imp is win I the candle. ' Th.lik of all tlie pCCVjah, rrfttfuS, ills 1 , c -in ut. l wi.es v oi. Nivnv who are Ml- Ivsivs curoplalnlri,-: nocjuire t a" than by 'and can't do any of the things thev ,,n begin In Wonilei if the game is word I the candle , , , I 'Think of all the peovlsn. fretful, dis-eontented dis-eontented wives you know- w no are o.'.vavs comploinlng because they an shabby and 'can't do any of the thing they used lo do. Do you think thai th.-u husbands an I having anv particular picnic'.' ThmK ol all the cynical, bitter men yo.i know who have faHen out oi love with the pretty, ciali.lv girls Ihey married Just bccae th.g iris have been forced into becoming unattractive drudges, and who an- alwavij warning e.iher men auunst matrimony: Pleasant for their wives. Isn't It. to be made lo realize that their hushanus re-raid re-raid them as burdens? "The truth Is lh.it a fmilv is a lui urv that comes high, and vhether nou enjov it or not. or even whether ou ve c- i "a right to indulge youfscif in one,, depends oltogeth i whether you can al-J ford it. To gal ivr,:.d when ij nav hi i I the price of a .. I r a - bul . ' ' fcok I In.- stove is Jur.'. as silly and Wlcued a thing to no. as tt is to set up an tpmo. bile w here you pn . two doli,: . down on lit and ate pavim: tin- balan as lo.ig ..: vou live and W'l. l I ou hive hell', lail up ever, time vou h?.ve to buy tinother Icr.Hon of gOo)lno " Vnd I for on I m not going "O moi t gage my soul to Old Man Trouble hi uiat "UndercVand. i don't think that u young COt'Ole should v. Ill until till I "M J ' t0 gel married, or until th.-v an futnlsh a lu.uif In splendor: but liu-v wvi n't got anv right to get nnnled un'il th-.. ran Mart life out of ill bt. " nd that's the idtimatum 1 ptu up to ilm If he doei not think I 'i worm working for and saving for. he I - mi Wunt me bad enough to k 't 11 s-' that ' |